81. Wild Texas: Green Anole (Anolis Carolinensis) Like all lizards, green anoles require special care and a controlled environment if they are to survive in captivity. To see more anoles, view our anole http://wildtexas.com/wildguides/anole.php

Featured Items Anoles, Basilisks and Water Dragons: A Complete Pet Care Manual (More Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) R. D. Bartlett Green Anole: Selection, Care and Breeding (Guide to Owning A...) Ray Hunziker Lizard in the Sun (Just for a Day Book) Joanne Ryder The General Care and Maintenance of Green Anoles (General Care and Maintenance of Series) Phillipe De Vosjoli Classroom Creature Culture: Algae to Anoles Carol Hampton Search for More: Green Anole Anolis carolinensis Green anole with dewlap extended See more photos at OutdoorPhoto.com Often mistaken for chameleons, the green anole is a tree-dwelling lizard that is native to the southeastern United States and Caribbean islands. Green anoles are also found in warm climates throughout North and South America. Often seen in parks and residential areas on walls, fences, trees, and low bushes, green anoles reach a maximum length of six to eight inches. Their bodies are slender, with a long, thin tail. Like true chameleons, green anoles have the ability to change color; this ability is limited in anoles, howevercoloration is usually green, yellow, brown, gray, or a mixture. Most healthy, non-threatened anoles are bright green in appearance. The male anole has a large pink fan of skin on its neck, called a dewlap, which can be extended for courtship or territorial display. Active and agile creatures, anoles have specially adapted pads on their feet which permit them to climb, cling, and run on virtually any surface. Another adaptation of the anole is its extremely fragile tail which drops off its body when grabbed, allowing the anole to escape from predators; in time, the anole will regrow a new (although generally shorter) tail. Anoles feed on small insects such as crickets, cockroaches, spiders, moths, and grubs.

82. Jonathan Losos His research has focused on the radiation of lizards of the genus anolis on Caribbean islands. More than 50 percent of the approximately 300 species of http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/343.html

nothing = 1; - Faculty Experts - News by Topic - News by School WUSTL in the News - Powered by Google WUSTL Home Public Affairs Home University News Medical News ... Rankings by Media Jonathan Losos Expertise: Darwin, evolution, lizards, population biology, behavioral studies, ecological studies, functional morphological studies, phylogenetic studies, Anolis lizard, population dynamics, behavioral ecology, local populations, collared lizard Bio: Losos Download The primary focus of the Losos Lab is on the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards. Major questions concern how lizards interact with their environment and how lizard lineages have diversified evolutionarily. Addressing such questions requires integration of behavioral, ecological, functional morphological, and phylogenetic studies. A major focus has been the evolutionary radiation of Caribbean Anolis lizards, but other lizard radiations are also being studied. A second focus is population dynamics and behavioral ecology of local populations of the collared lizard, Crotaphytus collaris WUSTL Contact Information: Work: Fax: E-mail: losos@biology.wustl.edu

83. Evolution Of Food Foraging Strategies For The Caribbean Anolis This paper describes the recently developed genetic programming paradigm which genetically breeds a population of computer programs to solve problems. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/koza92evolution.html

84. OhioLINK ETD: MATTINGLY, WILLIAM suggest that anolis species usually choose escape paths to optimize the speed of escape locomotion. Keywords anolis ; lizard; ecomorphology; locomotion http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1060952855

85. BDT [valuation Of Biological Diversity Conserved In-situ] the marginal effect of the anolis lizard population is simply is the profit that would not accrue if the anolis lizard became extinct. http://www.bdt.fat.org.br/publicacoes/padct/bio/cap7/brica2.html

defaultStatus="Base de Dados Tropical"; BIODIVERSIDADE: PERSPECTIVAS E OPORTUNIDADES TECNOLÓGICAS VALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY CONSERVED IN-SITU Valuation of Biological Diversity Conserved In-Situ III. Case Studies The following brief references to particular cases have been chosen to illustrate specific points about biodiversity evaluation in situ . Because of space limitations, coverage of each can only be the minimum necessary to support the point under discussion. III.1 The Rosy Periwinkle Specimens of the rosy periwinkle found in Madagascar are the source of two drugs effective against cancers including Hodgkin's disease and childhood leukemia (Rural Advancement Foundation International 1994 p. 52). Those drugs, vincristine and vinblastine, have vastly increased the remission rate for childhood leukemia (from 20 percent to 80 percent) and have reportedly generated more than $200 million per annum in commercial sales to their developer, Eli Lilly Incorporated in the United States (Myers and Simon 1994 p. 81). This case has been used as a prime example of the failure of the source country of in situ biodiversity products to reap the appropriate reward for providing technology to pharmaceutical firms. However Myers (1979 p.71) reports that though the samples used for development of the drug were found in Madagascar, the species is thought to have its origin in the West Indies, and is found in many tropical countries.

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